STUDIES IN STREAMLINING FROM THE DAYS OF HORATIO PHILLIPS TO MODERN TIMES. EVOLUTION OF AUTOMOBILE FROM ITS BEGINNING TO PRESENT STREAMLINED SHAPE IS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE 1941 CHEVROLET.

00:38:02:00 Taking the Air 07912

00:38:31:00 wide shot of small plane trailing a long plume of white smoke

00:38:36:00 same shot - white smoke gone
VO - “In hundreds of different ways, Man has taken the air. Great progress has been made in the conquest of the skies in the last 30 years.” (fade out 00:38:42:00)

00:40:17:00 med shot of two men at banks of controls, other men beyond them in aeronautics lab
00:40:22:00 VO - “Man-made cyclones shrieked through modern wind tunnels at speeds as high as 760 mph” (00:40:27:00)

00:45:11:00 CU of part of steering wheel and odometer - hovering at 50 (00:45:13:00)
00:45:14:00 med shot of car driving with doors open -begins with side view camera travels around to front (00:45:21:00)
00:45:22:00 med shot of car driving with doors open - camera moves from front back around to side (00:45:26:00)

00:45:27:00 med wide shot of car driving down very So Cal. street - pulls up behind small plane (00:45:34:00)
00:45:35:00 med shot of car from under wing of plane - two pretty ladies get out, walk toward plane (00:45:42:00)
VO - “...air currents can slip over the rounded contours, and that makes for greater safety. Automobiles of today are faster, safer, and more economical to operate.”
00:45:43:00 med shot of lady pilot hopping out of plane
00:45:44:00 MCU - lady pilot meets gal pals - three of them walk off together
00:45:49:00 VO - “...So, on land, sea, and air, America has been streamlined. America takes the air.”
(fadeout 00:45:59:00)

Typical Jam Handy film from 1941, more interesting as history than for scientific information. Today most high school kids understand streamlining (I hope)but it was still new in the 1940's. A lot of today's cars ignore the principle altogether. Who needs to save gas, anyway?